The Nicodemus enterprise., 1887-08-17
TIE NORTHWEST,

a large creamery Is being built at McCook.
A deaf mute was killed By the train near
Oxford.
Fremont expects to be put into the free de-
livery list soon.
DR.. Dun, Of Holdridge, died from an over
dose Of morphine.
Small grain is good and nearly all harvest
ed in Phelps county.
Work on the street railway at Fremont is
to commence this week.
Wayne has made about $s5, 900 worth OF i'm
provements so far this year.
The grist mill at Roca burned Saturday.
Value, $4,000; insured for $1,000.
At Minden, Dane, who was riding upon
load Of stone and driving an OK team, became
drowsy from heat, and falling off was In
stAntly killed.
August Volwine slipped and fell headfore.
most into well near Brainrad. His head
was crushed on the rocky walls and death was
instantaneous.
The election ct Fairbury for bonds to the
Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railway re-
suited in favor Of bonds BY nearly unani-
nous vote. This insures the Denver extern
sion Of the Rock Island BY way Of Fairbury
Construction on the branch of the Bur-
lingtoR and Missouri, the Nebraska and
Cheyenne, has reached point thirty miles
west OF Grant. Superintendent Of Construc
ton hazlett expects to have the rails laid to
Cheyenne early this fall
Harry Aldrich, burly wife beater, has been
sent to jail In Beatrice, pending trial in the
district court. The drunken loafer's ambf-
ton has been to compel his wife to work and
then rob her Of her earnings and beat and
choke her If she refused.
IOWA
Corning wants an artesian well
The LeMars Sentinel will put In gas en-
CINE.
CreSton has granted a franchise for street
railway.
The corner stone for a Presbyterian church
at Fonda was laid on the 18th.
Sheldon wants the railroad commissioners
to look over its union depot facilities.
The Upper Mississippi Shooting asssocia-
ton meets in Davenport during the first week
In September.
1t Is promised that the Illinois Central will
let contracts for the new depot in Dubuoue
within ten days.
The new depot at Avon, at the junction Of
the Rock island and Burlington, was struck
~ lightning Sunday and burned, nothing
being saved except the agents goods.
Since Sunday Judges Kavanagh and Con-
rad, OF Des Moines, have heard the testimony
IN fifty divorce cases. IN nearly all of which
they have rendered DEGREES in favor of the
plaintiff.
Two daughters Of W. f. Ballard, of Audu.
bon, were sent to the insane asylum at Mt.
Pleasant Monday. Their father is almost
broken-hearted over this great calamity to
both daughters.
Pratt Wallace, an old resident of Waterloo |
died Of paralysis after being sick 1875 DAYS.
curing which time he lost nearly pound |
day, weighing 100 when attacked and only
sixty pounds the day he died.
The wife Of Stephen Palmer, at Waterloo
committed suicide by shooting herself. She
was sixty five years Of age. She had been in
poor health and told neighbor few DAYS
previous that she feared she was going
crazy.
DAKOTA.
The inquiry for Dakota land is increasing. !
Mcpherson county's assessment is $780, |
900.
Aberdeen is discussing the sewerage cues
ton.
The school-tcachesI at Parker receive 81, 800
. year.
The new Touring mill at Groton is nearly
completed.
Jerauld county farmers are engaged in
harvesting.
Plankington's Artesian well is down six
hundred feet.
Louis Wakefield died at Aitkin, Monday,
aged % years.
The fair Of the Deadwood Fair association
viii begin September 90.
travelling men will form stock comnanv
and build hotel at Aberdeen.
The plans for the new Catholic convent At
Aberdeen are about completed.
Bismarck special says ex.Gov. Pierce has
not accepted the presidency Of the Grand
Forks university, and viii not.
several towns north Of Sioux Falls are now
Claiming they will get the Illinois Central.
Some OF them viii, that's sure.
Work begun on the Gettysburg extension
q the Chicago and Northwestern on Monday.
a mile OF track day viii be laid.
The jury In the case Of William NJ. Evans.
ex-treasurer Of Grant county, for embezzle.
ment, returned verdict Of not guilty.
n. Mcclure, Of Rapid City, got $500 award.
ed him By the court for strengthening Rap,d
creek, which the city had refused to pay.
sixteen year old boy named Dfbble was
arrested at Mitchell for an indecent assault
upon . demeAted girl. He admitted his
guilt.
MINNESOTA.
Bird Island has only one saloon this wear.
1t had five last.
The arrivals at Lake Minnetonka SUNDAY
ill nearly . column.
German Methodist church was dedicated
at Minneapolis Sunday.
Glencoe business men are organizing to
start bank at Hector, Renville county.
W. q. Brown, Of Chenille, claims to have
lost q, 600 worth Of hogs from cholera this
wear.
Fire entirely destroyed lannon's planning
mill ct Anoka Wednesday night. Loss,
$1,000.
novel game Of base bali was PLAYED at
Tracy. nine hafncr ,y>xro,a - |